Letter 1079: Source. Translated by James Barmby. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol.
Book I, Letter 79
To Martinus, Bishop in Corsica.
Gregory to Martinus, etc.
To those who ask for what is just it behooves us to lend a kindly ear, to the end both that the petitioners may find the remedies they hope for, and that the anxious care of a shepherd be not wanting to the Church. And inasmuch as the church of Tanates, in which your Fraternity was formerly adorned with sacerdotal dignity, has for its sins been so taken possession of and ruined by hostile savagery that no further hope remains of your returning there, we appoint you, by authority of these presents, undisputed cardinal priest in the Church of Saona, which has now been long deprived of the aid of a pontiff. Do thou therefore so arrange and order all things according to the injunctions of the canons with vigilant care in the love of God, that both your Fraternity may rejoice in having attained your desires, and the Church of God may be filled with answering joy for having received you as Cardinal pontiff.
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Source. Translated by James Barmby. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 12. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1895.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/360201079.htm>.
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